In the media
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Can Reddit and YouTube be held liable for user radicalisation? 27 March 2024Cases have been brought against YouTube and Reddit for spreading conspiracy theories. They are accused of being behind the radicalisation of a man who...
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Military service: a thing of the past or completely relevant today? 28 February 2024Two years ago, Russian tanks crossed the border into Ukraine. The war seems to be getting closer and closer. Is it time to dust off and reintroduce mi...
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‘You get the impression that Elon Musk is acting based on personal motivations’ 20 December 2022It increasingly seems that Elon Musk has taken it upon himself to decide what can and cannot be said on Twitter. He bought the platform with the messa...
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Bastiaan Rijpkema on political party ban in De Volkskrant 24 November 2022The proposal by Dutch political party D66 to amend a section of law to make it possible to ban a political party is unwise, says legal philosopher Bas...
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Wouter Hins: Intimidating journalists undermines democracy based on the rule of law 27 October 2022Angry politicians, angry journalists: the initiative of Forum for Democracy politician Gideon van Meijeren during which he secretly filmed a reporter ...
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Is it possible to ban a political party? 26 October 2022Dutch right-wing political party Forum for Democracy has repeatedly demonstrated that it has no lower limit when it comes to morals. Should the courts...
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Michael Klos on Dutch Radio Weetlust on freedom of speech on the internet 22 September 2022
On 15 September, Democracy Day, Michael Klos, researcher/teacher at the Department of Jurisprudence of Leiden Law School appeared as a guest on Radio ...
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'Legislation to reveal identity internet troll also conceivable in the Netherlands' 03 December 2021
Australia wants to introduce a law that makes it possible to demand the identity of anonymous internet trolls. Is this be conceivable in the Netherlands?
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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Raisa Blommestijn: Removal of children’s books about Black Pete troubling 13 November 2020Libraries in the Netherlands are removing books that contain references to Black Pete. According to the director of the Public Library Association, a ...
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Erwin Dijkstra: important for people to know that there are also academics with a disability 08 October 2020We hardly ever seen people with a disability appearing on talk shows and other media channels. The Dutch Minister for Disability Issues, Rick Brink, d...
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Review The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law 10 January 2017Conatus News has publiced an extensive review of the book The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law by Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg.